Completion of Maricopa Trail links parks around Phoenix

By News Staff

Posted December 1, 2018 8:15 am.

This article is more than 5 years old.

PHOENIX — There’s a new way to get around metro Phoenix, or at least its circumference.

Maricopa County has completed a 315-mile (507-kilometre) hiking and biking trail that circles Phoenix and most of its suburbs.

The Arizona Republic reports that the completion this fall of four small sections of trail on state trust land means the Maricopa Trail now connects to 10 regional parks, including Lake Pleasant Regional Park on the north and Usery Mountain Regional Park in the east.

The trail has been 15 years in the making after being proposed five years before that.

Former county Supervisor Andy Kunasek championed the trail project, persuading colleagues to start planning a connection between the regional parks nearly two decades ago.

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